100 Years Ago May 21, 1904

On Wednesday afternoon the people of Evesham were given the opportunity of witnessing a spectacle which was quite a novelty for the district, and as the weather was delightfully fine they turned out in very large numbers to see an exhibition of log rolling by the world's champion, Mr Tom Barton. There are of course two types of log rolling; Mr Barton's is of the literal not of the literary kind, and essentially it consists of moving about on water on a log of wood.

75 Years Ago

May 18, 1929

William Sidney Holtom, the patient who last week was admitted as a man and later discovered to be a woman, still remains in Evesham Infirmary. Although her condition has improved during the week she is still very weak and suffering greatly from nerves. Last Thursday, the woman with whom Holtom had been living as her husband, visited a Mr and Mrs Houghton, of Lower Clopton, near Mickleton, to whom Holtom had frequently referred. Mrs Houghton was unable to throw much light on the mystery but said she had known Holtom for about 15 years, "he" being employed with her son-in-law as a cowman on a farm near Hockley Heath, Birmingham. Neither Mr nor Mrs Houghton had ever suspected that Holtom was other than a man, although Mr Houghton commented that Holtom always had a squeaky voice.

50 Years Ago

May 22, 1954

Broadway still has no Scoutmaster and there is a danger that the movement in the village hall will have to be suspended. At a well-attended annual meeting of the Scouts Committee, the Chairman (Mr E Williams) said he thought the troop could hold its own with others; they now had new colours, and a Scouts Hut that was the envy of many troops. It was a shame, said Mr Williams, that from a village the size of Broadway no-one would volunteer to act as Scoutmaster. Surely there was someone in the village who would consider doing this.

25 Years Ago

May 17, 1979

The completion of the twinning between Pershore and the Bavarian town of Bad Neustadt an der Saale took place during the weekend, when 19 members of the Pershore Twinning Association visited Germany for three days. The first part of the twinning charter was signed in Pershore on March 3 when members of the Bad Neustadt town council visited the town, and this was the return visit. Bad Neustadt is an ancient walled city and spa town, situated about 20 miles from the border between East and West Germany.